THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife
April 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife
Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
December 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Third and final #ThesisoftheWeek for December is inspired by Stuart Kestenbaum's poem "Prayer for the Dead." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeWriting #WritingtoLearn #celchat #nctechat #2ndaryELA #Poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress
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November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Last #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by "It Matters," by Laura Foley, which pays homage to Mary Oliver. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #2ndaryELA #WriteBesideThem #PracticeMakesProgress
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As Billy Collins says, "poetry is the history of the human heart." None of the poems I wrote early every morning this month is perfect. All are practice, which helps me find my voice every day. #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth
THREAD: It's April! Which means #NationalPoetryMonth. This year is less about volume & more about mining notebooks to write "micro" pieces. I’m prioritizing wellness and discovery over a polished product with short, sustainable daily poems. #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife
April 30, 2026 at 10:17 AM
As Billy Collins says, "poetry is the history of the human heart." None of the poems I wrote early every morning this month is perfect. All are practice, which helps me find my voice every day. #AmWriting #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth
December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
December's first #ThesisoftheWeek is inspired by "Kindness" by Anya Silver. Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #2ndaryELA #CELChat #edchat #formativeassessment #writingpractice #poetry #formativewriting #writingtolearn poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The second #ThesisoftheWeek for December is based on "Myth of the Vanishing Indian" by Rena Priest. Use it if you'd like, and share it if you'd like! #PoetryasPractice #FormativeAssessment #WritingPractice #2ndaryELA #celchat #nctechat #poetry poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/09/intr...
Day 17: Today's poem reckons with the many sciences of reading. "Poetry as Argument" in @thevogelman.bsky.social #PoetryPauses inspires me to see arguments in poetry. This one uses Comparison/Contrast. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Day 17: Today's poem reckons with the many sciences of reading. "Poetry as Argument" in @thevogelman.bsky.social #PoetryPauses inspires me to see arguments in poetry. This one uses Comparison/Contrast. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Day 23: Only 1 week left in #NationalPoetryMonth & the time has flown! Written beside “Can You Hear It?” by Paula Lepp, this #ecopoem underscores #mindfulmoments found in simple daily tasks and within our imaginations! #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 23, 2026 at 9:46 AM
Day 23: Only 1 week left in #NationalPoetryMonth & the time has flown! Written beside “Can You Hear It?” by Paula Lepp, this #ecopoem underscores #mindfulmoments found in simple daily tasks and within our imaginations! #PoetryasPractice #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 25: Written beside “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason, today's poem "Close to Never" fun and whimsical poem to write. One of the many things I love about poetry is its capacity to create #WritingJoy #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #MentorTexts poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 25, 2026 at 9:52 AM
Day 25: Written beside “Basilico” by Sue Ann Gleason, today's poem "Close to Never" fun and whimsical poem to write. One of the many things I love about poetry is its capacity to create #WritingJoy #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #MentorTexts poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 21: Written beside “Heavenly Bodies” by Alison Luterman, today's poem was drafted in my notebook late last spring prior to my husband's and my 20th wedding anniversary. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 21: Earthly Bodies
We’re falling asleep side by side. I can touch his lower back, silky and broad across ligaments, a back that bears weight most days...
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April 21, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Day 21: Written beside “Heavenly Bodies” by Alison Luterman, today's poem was drafted in my notebook late last spring prior to my husband's and my 20th wedding anniversary. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AmRevising #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 8: Another poem written beside "Ode" by Zoe Higgins, but this one is from the P-O-V of a book that hasn't been read. #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #Poetry #Perspective #Personification #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem
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April 8: A Note From the Novel Not Yet Started
You used to read everything, no bookmark left mid chapter. You'd sort through titles missing not one minute to set eyes on words. ...
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April 8, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Day 8: Another poem written beside "Ode" by Zoe Higgins, but this one is from the P-O-V of a book that hasn't been read. #AmWriting #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #Poetry #Perspective #Personification #MentorTexts #WriteBesideThem
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The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice
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November 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The third #ThesisoftheWeek for November is inspired by Natalie Goldberg's poem "Home." Use it if you'd like. Share it if you'd like! #2ndaryELA #PoetryasPractice #WritingPractice
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Day 12: Some subjects I just can't write about in any other genre than #poetry, and one of those is my younger brother 💙 #PoetryasPractice #Memoir #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #AutismAwarenessMonth #Siblings poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 12: Swing
one day the crumb and dust and hair littered floors the pot on the stove burbling all of it will go on without me i’ll have disappeared as e...
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April 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Day 12: Some subjects I just can't write about in any other genre than #poetry, and one of those is my younger brother 💙 #PoetryasPractice #Memoir #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #AutismAwarenessMonth #Siblings poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Only three days remaining in #NationalPoetryMonth and here is my 28th poem of 2025, written beside “A Drink of Water” by Jeffrey Harrison. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
April 28: A Ribbed Tank Top
When my eighteen year-old son steps into the kitchen in a tight ribbed tank top and reaches into the pantry I think of my grandfather more...
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April 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Only three days remaining in #NationalPoetryMonth and here is my 28th poem of 2025, written beside “A Drink of Water” by Jeffrey Harrison. #PoetryasPractice #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2025/04/apri...
Day 10: I love how poetry can take me through time in a matter of lines, to remind me that every day we are all reshaped into our next selves! #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #NWP #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting #Poetry
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April 10: Thanksgiving 2025
Each of you began first as a flutter, a blurry grain of rice, a beating heart, taking up at most a half inch onscreen. Now, how many more ...
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April 11, 2026 at 2:20 AM
Day 10: I love how poetry can take me through time in a matter of lines, to remind me that every day we are all reshaped into our next selves! #NationalPoetryMonth #PoetryasPractice #PointofView #NWP #WriteBesideThem #WriteforYourLife #AmWriting #Poetry
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Day 13: Something I've been tinkering with is using #GoogleGemini to create line art "reflecting" the poem. I'd never visualize this, but it does convey some of the original meaning... #PoetryasPractice #AIinEducation #Visualization #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 13, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Day 13: Something I've been tinkering with is using #GoogleGemini to create line art "reflecting" the poem. I'd never visualize this, but it does convey some of the original meaning... #PoetryasPractice #AIinEducation #Visualization #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
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September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Day 20: Also written beside “Ribollita” by D. Hilbert. One #mentortext & two totally different poems. Again, some #GeminiAI line art representations of my poems pique my interest. Others just make me laugh. #nuance #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 20, 2026 at 9:38 AM
Day 20: Also written beside “Ribollita” by D. Hilbert. One #mentortext & two totally different poems. Again, some #GeminiAI line art representations of my poems pique my interest. Others just make me laugh. #nuance #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 15: This was written beside "Water" by Rudy Francisco. It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's statement: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 15, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Day 15: This was written beside "Water" by Rudy Francisco. It reminds me of Flannery O'Connor's statement: “I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #WriteforYourLife #WriteBesideThem poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 18: Written beside “Lost and Found” by Laura Foley, this chronicles a middle school science field trip. Moving it from notebook to screen, I cut a lot to focus on the essence of the experience. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #ecopoetry
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April 18, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Day 18: Written beside “Lost and Found” by Laura Foley, this chronicles a middle school science field trip. Moving it from notebook to screen, I cut a lot to focus on the essence of the experience. #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #ecopoetry
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Day 24: "Brownies" is the title of my poem today, which was written beside “Balance” by Dorianne Laux. I asked #GeminiAI to illustrate the poem and we agreed to disagree, so I cropped out the captions 🤣 #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting
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April 24, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Day 24: "Brownies" is the title of my poem today, which was written beside “Balance” by Dorianne Laux. I asked #GeminiAI to illustrate the poem and we agreed to disagree, so I cropped out the captions 🤣 #PoetryasPractice #NationalPoetryMonth #AmWriting
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Poem 4, "At Galway Lake" captures a mindful moment in nature. #mindfulness #writingaswellnesspractice #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #NationalPoetryMonth
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April 4: At Galway Lake
I want to remember kayak’s oar lapping languid descent algae deep sweet shoulder ache waist unlocked breathing respect awe pausing glim...
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April 4, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Poem 4, "At Galway Lake" captures a mindful moment in nature. #mindfulness #writingaswellnesspractice #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife #NationalPoetryMonth
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Poem 2 is "Ultrasound, October 2005," a snapshot of pure joy! #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
April 2: Ultrasound, October 2005
All there, the evidence a boy, a boy I couldn’t believe the appley head arms curled fighting Irish snapshot saved ultrasound a funny soun...
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April 2, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Poem 2 is "Ultrasound, October 2005," a snapshot of pure joy! #AmWriting #PoetryasPractice #WriteforYourLife poetryaspractice.blogspot.com/2026/04/apri...
Day 26: 5 days remain in #NationalPoetryMonth & what a month it's been! Today's poem was written beside “It Matters” by Laura Foley. The chapter "Poetry as Argument," in #PoetryPauses by @thevogelman.bsky.social inspired this one too! #PoetryasPractice
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April 26: It Matters
now more than ever amidst such turbulence, matters that we engage, talk about and around all we think we understand, though we unders...
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April 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Day 26: 5 days remain in #NationalPoetryMonth & what a month it's been! Today's poem was written beside “It Matters” by Laura Foley. The chapter "Poetry as Argument," in #PoetryPauses by @thevogelman.bsky.social inspired this one too! #PoetryasPractice
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